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The widow of Malabar, or The tyranny of custom : a tragedy, imitated from the French of M. Le Mierre.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3699.S84 W5 1790
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Starke, Mariana, 1762?-1838.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 unnumbered page, 116-183 pages, 1 unnumbered page (the last page blank) ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Tyranny of custom
- Place of Publication:
- [New-York] : [Printed by Hodge, Allen, and Campbell, and sold at their respective book-stores], [1790]
- Notes:
- Detached from: The miscellaneous works of Colonel Humphreys, published in 1790 (Not to be confused with 'The miscellaneous works of David Humphreys', published in 1804)
- Adapted from Le Mierre's La veuve de Malabar, ou L'empire des coutumes.
- Prologue and epilogue to this edition jointly written by John Trumbull and David Humphreys. Cf. Dedication, p. 116.
- OCLC:
- 81092469
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